Car-protector and rail-cleaner.



No. 830.212. PATENTED SBPTL"4,"19D6.

N. P. DANIELSEN.

CAR PROTECTOR AND RAIL CLEANER.

, APPLICATION FILED DEO.2,1905.

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NIELS P. DANIELSEN, OF COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOIV A.

CAR-PROTECTOR AND RAIL-CLEANER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

Application filed December 2, 1905. Serial No. 290,043.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NinLs P. DANIELSEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Council Bluffs, in the county of Pottawattamie and State of-Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Protectors and Rail-Cleaners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in car-protectors and railcleaners.

The object of my invention is to provide a durable and inexpensive device for removing snow, ice, sand, or dirt and the like from the railway-track and depositing the same on either side of the track; and it consists of a pair of tapered or approximately coneshaped cutters and sweepers which are mounted upon a suitable shaft and is provided with means for raising and lowering cutters and sweepers, which will be more fully hereinafter described, and finally pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side view, partly in section, on line m an of Fig. 1 of my device secured to a street-car or the like. Fig. 2 is a plan view with the car removed. Fig. 3 is an end view of one of the cutters and sweepers. Fig. 4 is a broken detail of the slotted handle shown in the connecting links and shafts.

In connection with my invention I employ an ordinary car, such as a street-car A, provided at its forward end with a pair of hangers 1, having the slots 2 and 2 for carrying the boxes 3 and 3, in which are journaled the shafts 4 and 5. The shaft 5 is provided at each end with a tapered or approximately cone-shaped core 6, provided on its periphery with the cutters or knives 7, and immediately in the rear of said knives 7 with the wire broom 8. It will be observed that these cores 6 are tapered or cone-shaped and that they lie directly over and above the rails with the tapered end to the outside of the track, so they will throw sand, dirt, or the like outward from the track when revolving. Secured intermediate of these cutters C and upon the shaft 5 is the gear 9, which meshes with the gear 10, which is secured to the shaft 4 and which is normally held in place adjacent the shaft 5 by means of the coiled spring 11, engaging the top of the journal-boxes 3 and the bottom of the car A.

Secured adjacent the gear 10 upon the shaft 4 is a sprocket 12, which. is encompassed by means of an endless chain 13, also encompassing a sprocket 14, secured to the forward axle B of the car A. It will be observed that this chain 13 transmits the power from the axle B to the shafts 4 and 5 for rotating the cutters and sweepers.

The shafts 4 and 5 are connected by means of the links 15, which engage the inner face of the sliding ournal-boxes 3 and 3. These links are provided with hooks 16, to which are connected the chains 16, which are in turn at their opposite ends connected to the ring 17. Further connected to this ring 17 is the chain 18, which passes upward through the platform D of the carA and secured to the shaft 19, which shaft is carried by means of the hanger 20, which is secured to the wall a of the car A. The shaft 19 is provided with the wheel 21, which is provided with the handle 22 for rotating the same, thus either raising or lowering the shafts 4 and 5 and the cutters and sweepers C as desired.

It is of course understood that my invention may be made of any suitable material and that the same may be applied to either street-cars or locomotives.

Having described the preferable way of carrying out my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent, is- I 1. In a car-protector and rail-cleaner, the combination, with the car, the vertical slotted hangers, of'the rotating cutters and sweepers, and means for driving said cutters and sweepers, also means for raising and lowering said cutters and sweepers, substantially asset forth.

2. The combination, in a car-protector and rail-cleaner, of a pair of tapered cutters and sweepers mounted upon each end of a shaft, means for rotating said cutters and sweepers, also means for raising and lowering said outters and sweepers, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, in a car-protector and rail-cleaner, having tapered or approximately cone-shaped cutters and sweepers, substantially as shown, of the slotted hangers having journal-boxes working within vertical slots therein, of shafts connected by means of links journaled within said boxes, and means for rotating said tapered cutters and sweepers, also means for raising and lowering said shafts within the slots of said hangers, substantially as set forth.

4. In a car-protector and rail-cleaner, comprising a shaft, tapered cutters and sweepers mounted upon each end of said shaft above the rails, as shown, hangers secured to the bottom of the car and provided with vertical 5 slots Within which the j ournal-boXes are held for carrying shafts 4, and 5, links conneotin said shafts, a gear mounted upon each of sai shafts and meshing with each other, a sprocket mounted upon shafts 4, adjacent 1'0 said gear, an endless chain encompassing said sprocket also a sprocket mounted upon I the car-axle and encompassed by said chain, for furnishing power to rotate the cutters and sweepers, substantially as shown and de NIELS P. DANIELSEN.

O. A. POTTER,

Witnesses FREDK. J. LARSON. J 

